Button or fastener



No. 627,||o. l Patented lune 2o, |899. c. H. Goonwm.

BUTTON ORFASTENER.

(Application led Feb. 6, 1899.)

(No Modem A TTOHNE Y Vzo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE VVATERBURY BUTTON COMPANY, OF CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON OR FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,110, dated J une 20, 1899. Application filed February 6, 1899. Serial No. 704,707. (No model.)

To LZZ whom t may concern: f

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. GOODWIN, residing at Waterbury, in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons or Fasteners for Wearing-Apparel and other Articles, of which the following is a description, referring to the accompanying drawings, that form part of this specification.

The invention relates particularly to the class of so-called glove-fasteners in which one of the two members consists of a buttonlike structure or socket member containing a recess which engages and detains the coperating member, usually of stud-like form and provided with a spring-head. The spring serves to retain the stud within the recess by reason of the slight expansion of the stud after it has passed the narrowest part of the recess. As an alternative to this form the socket or recess may be made slightly resilient and the springfeature be omitted from the stud, the cooperation being substantially the same in either case. The object of the present invention is to improve and simplify the construction of the member that contains the socket or recess. It has long been customary to secure both members to the respective iiaps or edges of the garment or other article by means of tubular rivets or eyelets, and in order to insure the proper riveting up of the tubular shank of the rivet a conical or conoidal anvil-plate has been introduced into the construction. In accordancewith my present invention I employ but a single piece of metal in addition to the tubular rivet, yet I retain all the advantages of appearance and of mechanical construction which have heretofore been obtained by three orfour parts.

The invention is of so extremely simple a nature that it will be best understood by a description of the preferred form shown in the accompanying drawings,it being of course undcrstoodthat my improved button, fas' tener, or socket may be used with any ap-` proved form of stud of a proper size adapted to fit it. I

Figure lis a face and edge view of the blank from which my button-cap is formed. Fig. 2 shows in side view and bottom view the blank after its projections have been turned at right angles to the original plane of the blank. Fig. 3 shows similar views of a succeeding stage in the formation. Figs. 4 and 5 are sections on the planes 4. 4 and 5 5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 shows the tubular rivet. Fig. 7 shows a bottom view of the completed device as applied to piece of fabric or leather, and Figs. 8 and 59 are cross-sections of the planes 8 8 and 9 9 of Fig. 7.

Throughout the ligures the same letters of reference indicate the same parts, numerals being employed to indicate different shapes or stages of such parts.

The cap portion is lettered C and the tubular rivet R. The complete construction will be best understood by tracing it through the process of formation, commencing with the blank shown in Fig. l. The blank is provided with two sets of marginal ears c and c, which form, respectively, the inner surface of the recess which receives the stud and the rivet engaging ears. (See Figs. 8 and 9.) Subsc quently after one or two operations of suitable dies the blank is converted to the form shown in Fig. 2, the upper surface ofthe cap surface at right angles totheir original plane.

By the use of suitable dies and successive operations the ears c are turned inward and back closely against the inner surface of the cap for a portion of their length, While their extremities form the cylindrical portion of the sleeve of 1the cap, as shown particularly in Fig. 4. to these ears c in the original blank will now `be clearly understood from their use `and `proper fitting together` in the manner described.' The ears c' are merely turned inward, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, to form .lugs for catching and retaining the upset end of the tubular rivet R. (See Fig. 9.)

One peouliarity of my invention nowvbecomes apparent by comparing Figs. 5 and 6. The tubular shank or sleeve of the rivet R when introduced into the cap lies outside of the cylindrical ends of the ears c and when The shape which must be given.

. the lugs formed bythe ears c', all as indi-1 pressed against the cap in the operation of riveting the curved surface c3 insures the proper turning and upsetting of the end of the rivet land guides the upset flange during the riveting operation toward and beneath The advantages of myinvention will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

What I claim as the novel and charac-teristic features of r'ny invention `Vare the following:

1. A button or fastener consisting of a cap provided with inwardly-turned marginal portions and a -rivet the tubular' shank or sleeve of which is upset against and turned Outward by said inwardly-turned por-tions and engaged by and beneath separated marginal ears of the said cap, substantially as set forth.

2. A button or fastener cap consisting of a piece provided with two sets of integral marginal ears one set constituting rivet-engaging lugs and the other set being distinct therefrom and constituting rivet-upsetting devices or anvils, substantially as set forth.

3. A button Or fastener cap having two sets of bent marginal ears, one set being turned inward to form rivet-holding lugs and the otherset being turned inward in the intervals between Vsuch lugs and constituting anvils for upsetting the rivet, substantially as set forth.

Signed this 27th day of January, 1899, lat Waterbury, Connecticut.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN. 

